Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

the conference: symposium for the devil

The Conference begins on the morning of 20 January 1942, in a villa on the picturesque Lake Wannsee in Berlin, where leading members of the Nazi regime including SS, Reich Chancellery, ministries, police and administration were invited by Reinhard Heydrich

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juniper: no tonic

Charlotte Rampling plays a gin soaked grumpy granny in JUNIPER, a Kiwi coming of age story from Matthew J Saville.

Rampling rampages through a family reunion, forced by a fall to move in with her widowed son and his suicidal

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film kids: truly inspirational

Chances are, you’ll not have seen anything like it.

Film Kids is a heart-warming film about teens with intellectual disabilities dreaming, writing and starring in their own short films. It also captures the stories of their parents dealing with diagnosis,

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the forgiven: the eye of the needle

I can suck a golf ball through a hose” says Abbey Lee, playing one of the hedonist guests at a lavish party pivotal to the appalling yet enthralling narrative of THE FORGIVEN.

Nothing obliges us to think any of

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full time: warrior mum

With it’s Georgio Moroder like score and it’s Run Lola Run tone, FULL TIME will leave you breathless.

From its waking moments till its full time end credits, FULL TIME pulses with an extraordinary tension, a hum to the humdrum,

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murder party

A Knives Out knock off, MURDER PARTY doesn’t quite have the knockout effect. Nevertheless, it is filled to the brim with colourful characters and surprise twists that entertain in timely manner as murder multiplies in the manor.

The story follows

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in loving memory: mourning has broken

Raw as grief. Tragic as a three foot coffin. Mia Morissey’s song cycle of death and loss IN LOVING MEMORY is a mixture of celebration and scream, love and loss. Morrissey hollers and hoots and howls, raging against the

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official competition: a sensational roast

Imagine Almodovar teaming with William Goldman and filming Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie did I Tell? and you have an inkling of the delights, tone and tenure of OFFICIAL COMPETITION (Competencia oficial).

When a billionaire entrepreneur

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where the crawdads sing: swamp wash

Disneyfied chitlins with no grits, WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING is a one note chorus of disavowing the meat of a fully fleshed drama by turning it into a syrupy confection. Even as a souffle, it doesn’t rise.

A tale of

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